First, I'd have thought that on a site with few modern light-sources, and with night-adjusted eyes it'd be really hard to see the parts of the tent that *were'n't * on fire unless you had a fairly powerful lamp.

Second, bad-drills leaving a shootable weapon unattended!

Third, who needs a live-fire capable weapon for "re-enactment"? What level of authenticity do you need? Save that level of firepower for on the range, celebrating new-year, digging up stump and home defence, ffs!

Fourth, I'm kinda jealous that one can own that sort of firepower. I blog as Idaho-smith, and I used to be a UK shooter. The crime-stats in the UK *did* *not* *drop* after the last round of gun bans and I was perplexed that either the voters or the politicians thought society was somehow safer because the UK Olympic shooting team have to practise in Belgium (The squad is suffering because it's the same old faces from c. 1996, with no new blood coming in).